scant
/skænt/ adverb C2- With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
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Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde’s Hollow.
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